XPENG (NYSE: XPEV) participated in the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2026, marking the company's third attendance at the conference. Dr. Xianming Liu, Head of General Intelligence Center at XPENG, spoke at the Workshop on Deployment of Foundation Models for Embodied AI alongside representatives from Tesla, NVIDIA and Waymo.

The company announced that its VLA2.0 foundation model has entered mass production. According to XPENG, VLA2.0 achieved over 50% assisted driving mileage share within its first month of deployment in China's assisted driving sector.

XPENG disclosed technical specifications for its world model development, which the company describes as capable of deliberative reasoning, controllable generation, and long-horizon forecasting. The company published three research papers detailing its approaches: X-World, X-Foresight, and X-Cache.

The company reported training efficiency improvements over the 12-month period ending in March, with per-GPU training efficiency increasing 1,010% and single-job training efficiency rising 4,360%. GPU hardware utilization increased from 40% to 90% during this period.

XPENG stated that its IRON humanoid robot is progressing toward mass production by the end of 2026, with deployment planned for the company's retail stores as shopping guides in the first quarter of 2027.

The information was disclosed in a company press release statement. XPENG is headquartered in Guangzhou, China, and manufactures electric vehicles at facilities in Zhaoqing and Guangzhou in Guangdong province.